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No, it really isn't nonstop. You learned something new. Something, I am willing to bet you have not taken the time to research for yourself. The answers are there. You just have to look for them.
I never learned the prez thing in school. It's the only thing I temember from a trivia book I got when I was 10 in 1976 and wore red white & blue tube socks the whole summer. First grade? No way! Just like a first grader doesn't need to know about JFK's wacky personal life. History is layers. Stuff that whole onion down a kid, and it'll come back up and make a mess.
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46F in NE NJ, Going to 19 Sun. Wish we were metric!
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Yes! And don't sell them - might pop up again in, say, 6th grade, albeit with a different level of understanding. Where else but HS would a kid say "Hey! My old MATH toys!"
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I had an adult student that did not know that George Washington was the first president. I thought maybe she was joking, because she plays tricks on me. I hurt her feeling when I questioned her if she was joking.
"Why do I need to know this? How do you know for SURE he was president?" she asked.
He wasn't. John Hanson was elected President of the Continental Congress in November, 1781, and became the first president to serve a one-year term under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation George got the dollar bill, though.
Sorry. It was just hangin' there on a low branch, and I had a stick, so....
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These threads about money never go well. :)
As far as having more money equaling more stress, um, ok. You might have different stress but you won't have the stress of choosing between feeding your family or paying the electric.
Having money doesn't stop all stress, but it can make that stress managable whereas having stress and no money is almost unbearable at times.
Hey, look. I will have you know that choosing between the grey and camel leather for my Aston had be in fits. But my troubles are too lofty for the teeming hoards.
Why I think this hot button is especially close to blowing out the top of the thermometer is that the gap is more apparent than ever. That little gap that started around 1980-ish did not exist for my parents, and I don't remember a sub culture that oozed the message "Here you are, but here's where you really should be, so do this, because otherwise you are other, you are not in the club, you have missed the train only because of what you did or are doing."
We just finished the section in DD's logic book that dealt with "bandwagon" and "testimonials," and those other fallacies. She said it sure seems like everyone is trying to sell you something.
Yup.
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Sally always uses cranberries effectively.
BLEND
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Not to scare the willies out of anyone, but I'm looking at this from the other side -- Stage IV ocular melanoma. I also get regular skin scans, even though having OM does not correlate to cutaneous (skin) melanoma. Anyway, here's my mantra.
Cancer can be fast.
You must be faster.
Unlike melanoma, BCC is nonmelanocytic and has a very low metastasis rate, but it can spread to surrounding tissue, which would still kinda suck. Do not wait. Add 6-month derm scans to your calendar like 6-moth dentist visits and just let it be a habit. Detection is everything.
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This is a nice list. I try to do all these things.
The part I particularly struggle with is trust. Who do you trust? How do you trust? What if, in the past, trusting has led you to unknowingly perpetuating rumors and lies? How do you recover trust, in others and yourself?
Who do you trust, when reading widely, and encountering WIDELY differing accounts?
And how do you squeeeeeeeeze all this into 24 hours with multiple students and multiple subjects? I guess if one can pick one author and just trust her/him, then it's fairly easy to just keep doing the next thing they tell you to. But then I'm not sure it's possible to really properly do the other parts of the list, that way.
What sources led you to mistrust?
How many students are we talking about?
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Afternoon flight turbulence entering Romania.
BEFOR (HA!)
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celery cooked down in butter (no onions because I despise onions!)
I despise onions unless I cook them until well browned -- I'm never really sure that's what the foodies call caramelized, as I do it hot and fast instead of low and slow. But I only learned to eat onions 5 years ago, so....yeah.
My stuffing is out of a box, though. :blushing:
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1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day. 97% of poor people eat more than 300 junk food calories per day. (They're called urban food deserts, Dave, you can google that) 23% of wealthy gamble. 52% of poor people gamble. (Lottery has indeed been called a tax on the poor, but unless it's habitual, not unlike the high roller blowing his weekly coke money in Vegas, it's not a valid comparison. Hedge funds gamble).
2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this. (The poor have a single goal to make to the end of their shift(s) and hope their childcare holds out.)
3. 76% of wealthy exercise aerobically 4 days a week. 23% of poor do this. (It's called Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, Dave, and you aren't going to hit the gym until after your physiological and safety needs are met, at least. psych 101).
4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% for poor people. (Hard to do on the bus Dave, or if your shift(s) get you home after the library closes, or you're not close to a library, or....)Ya know, DD and I are in the part of her logic book that talks about what to look for when someone is trying to sell you something. This guys ticks several of the boxes. Wanna get our of debt? Sell books to people telling them how to get out of debt.
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Ask for extra booze.
Directional stealth farts, perhaps?
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Read broadly.
Read often.
Question.
Trust.
Inference.
Connect.
Explore.
That's how you do it.
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DD12 has an every growing assortment of projects and "scenes in progress" (Daaaad! You can't move that, it's a STORY!). I figure that if my kid can go an entire weekend afternoon of solo imaginative-ness in her room, listening to Narnia for the gazillionth time, then I'll only intervene if clearing a path from bed to door reaches snow-shovel extremes.
That room will be really empty when she goes to college in five years.
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Got a Waring Pro bar blender factory refurb off eBay. One switch, 2 speeds. Glass jar. Tall and skinny.I'm looking at a Waring now, what do you think? I have a terrible Oster now, hate it!!
I've replaced the washers in the jar, which can still leak a bit under really heavy loads, like frozen strawberries. The motor is a tank, and is round and compact for my teeny kitchen. I would buy again for the price (under $100). Seems similar to (sorry, phone link). http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00197DWZI/ref=aw_d_pd_kitchen?qid=1385011360&sr=8-5
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Yup, I have one of those. It's moderated with age (now 12), and DW tells me it's standard middle school developmental thing.
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Would Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta deliver it to SWB in a briefcase?
Only if you can figure out what a "soul with cheese" is in French.
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DW is a long time PS teacher, and found TWTM face out on a library shelf sometime in 2004ish (I think). An experience researcher, 3 courses shy of ABD, she got it in a "huh, interesting" moment. What she read seemed to fit well very with what we saw early in DD. We started HS in K (now 7th). I admit I have not read TWTM cover to cover, but that partially comes down to our division of labor.
DW is Director of Curriculum, Research, and Long-Range Planning. I am Lead Teacher, and as such I give feedback on what seems to work, and what doesn't, and I receive invaluable encouragement from the various horror stories DW and her colleagues provide from the "good" upper middle class district in which they work.
Not a typical set up, I suspect, but it works.
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Blendtec's bash against Vita seems to be that Vita has a tamper, which must mean it isn't efficient at pulling stuff into the blades. Prob marketing hype. If the motor on my Waring blows (bulletproof so far), I'll probably go Blendtec.
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No one in this thread asserted that one drink makes a person unsafe or irresponsible to drive.
I did. I won't drive after one drink. That's just my brain/body. Your mileage may vary.
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This one knocked my socks off yesterday.
:iagree: :iagree:
That's I love Girl Scouts. DD went to a GS science thing at Stevens Institute, run by women engineering undergrads, and the keynote speaker did her BS in music ed, taught for a bunch o years, then went back to get a science PhD and is now head of NASA's astrobiology program. Too cool.
DD sat transfixed last night watching a Great Courses DVD on neuroscience while finishing a freehand embroidery of pointe shoes she just kinda made up. THAT is a poster for HS right there.
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I wonder what kind of wine would go best with pumpkin cake.
Sorry, I could only find pie. Improvise.
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My yacht totally zigzags lazily. (first world problem)
LPOTY
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wow that is a low average income. Average household income in my village (tiny town) is around $58K a year so I am still $10K below that currently.
Whoa. I just checked the citydata figures for my tiny NJ town (5000, maybe tiny is relative) -- $97,000. That's what happens along the train lines to Manhattan.
The Word "Papoose"
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Yup. Teachers who know everything are lousy teachers. The 3 best words to grow a life long learner are I. Don't. Know.